Word: broke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vouchers Cleveland's White, an African-American Democrat, is sparring with his city's traditionally Democratic teachers' union and the N.A.A.C.P. Goldsmith alienated his party's establishment by firing patronage appointees who stood in the way of his efforts to privatize. Says New York's Giuliani, a Republican who broke with his party by lobbying to save rent regulations: "It's better to keep your constituents happy than to keep a political party happy." So far, it's been a winning strategy: all these mayors have been re-elected handily, except Giuliani--who is running this year...
...more cosmic question loomed as the two sides broke off talks last weekend. Did the Teamster strike presage a new militancy by unions or would it prove to be just one more indication of how limited their clout is? With fears of downsizing and layoffs still rampant, unions staged only 37 walkouts involving 1,000 or more workers last year, in contrast to 231 major strikes in 1976. "If the Teamsters can't deliver [a winning settlement] on this one," says Charles Craver, a labor expert at the George Washington University law school, "organized labor is in big trouble...
...never broke any bones; I avoided braces in junior high; my family is still together; and none of my good friends had died... until this summer...
...which shrank the deficit more than twice as much and laid the groundwork for the recovery that made this hootenanny possible. Those showdowns were bloody, fratricidal affairs that left many in both parties wondering why they bothered in the first place. In 1990 George Bush broke a campaign promise and raised taxes; he never regained the public's trust. In 1993 the Democrats essentially took the same approach and a year later lost control of both houses of Congress...
...space-age version of knights in shining armor blasted off to the rescue of Mir today. Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov are racing to the troubled space station to perform vital repairs ? and they were never more needed. True to form, Mir's oxygen generators broke down this morning. TIME's Dick Thompson says this latest mishap is no cause for alarm: "To the Russians, this is just life as normal," he says. The two cosmonauts are expected to dock Thursday...